Rotating players and at rest in secondary cuts are not a new phenomenon – but Chelsea has brought it to a new level in the league of the conference this season.
They reached an average of 8.5 changes per European game, based on their previous range of Premier League.
At the League stadium, there was a recognized premier team and a league XI conference – with very little overlap. They also changed a lot in domestic cups, although fell in the second obstacle in both.
England striker Palmer, their star player, was not even scored in Europe before direct elimination matches.
While the Blues started playing in direct elimination games, they started using more first team players, such as Palmer, Caicedo and Marc Cucurella.
But even through that, they have never made less than five changes compared to their last championship match, including the final.
At the end of the season, well, until the FIFA club World Cup next month, 18 Chelsea players have presented more matches in the conference league than of the Premier League this season.
This includes five players who left the club in January.
Midfielder Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall, who played the 15 European games, presented 13 times in the League.
Marc Guiu, whose six goals were two timids of the Golden Boot of the conference, has not yet started a championship match.
However, the final saw a stronger XI, with only four external field changes on the side that beat Nottingham Forest last Sunday to win a place in the Champions League.
“Chelsea has much more money than anyone in competition in this competition,” said the former Blues Pat Nevin ‘the BBC 5 Live.
“But they respected the competition saying:” We are not going to turn off the softest teams, but we make enough to make sure that we will pass “.
“I must say that by looking at all of this now, Enzo Maresca has done a great job.”
